You’ll never believe what happened to me this week-
It all started when one of my professors put me in contact with a friend of his from high school, Jodi Kaplan. Jodi, received her M.F.A in Film from Columbia and owns a dance booking company. I met with her last week and she asked me if I was interested in editing footage for dance photographer, Lois Greenfield! The footage was for an upcoming project called “Projected,” a dance performance that will project Lois’s images on dancers and fabric. The short film would be on display in a theater lobby in China during the time that the Olympics were going on. Naturally, I said yes- this would be a great opportunity for me! Since I would be going between my internship and this project, Jodi arranged for me to stay in a hostel for the week.
During the week I worked side by side with Lois in her studio editing the footage. She is an extremely nice woman and was a pleasure to work with. I worked really hard on the project and I’m so proud of the final piece. Lois and Jodi were impressed with my work and asked me to work on the project with them in the fall as they create the performance!
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The first preview for “Fela!” is fast approaching. The show is amazing and I strongly recommend you see it. Make sure to check out the show’s website and buy tickets!
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My internship in NYC is just over half-way done and boy has it been an awesome experience thus far! The two main shows I’m helping with are “Fela! ~Music is the Weapon~” (directed by Bill T. Jones) and “9 to 5″ (music by Dolly Parton). I spent the month of June in the studio conducting research and building content for both shows (as well as helping out with a couple smaller shows). Now, we spend most days in the theater (37 Arts) finishing content and teching Fela. In between working on Fela I am able to observe Bill at work (which is very interesting). I was even introduced to Bill by Peter and got to shake is hand!
More importantly is that I’ve learned a lot from this experience. The great thing about being an intern is that everyone knows you are there to learn so they are more then willing to answer any of my questions. From simple After Effects questions to something more in depth like how a concept is presented to a client. In the theater, I am able to see the back-end process of setting the equipment up and programing the projectors.
I’ve been keeping a video blog about the experience so feel free to check it regularly.
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I started my internship in NYC this week and decided that I would keep a video blog about the experience. Be sure to check my youtube page regularly to see all my posts throughout the summer.
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This June I will be interning in New York City for projection artist, Peter Nigrini, on a new musical by Bill T. Jones. The musical will have video projected with several different projectors. The internship will be an excellent opportunity for me to see a professional company’s process of integrating media and theater. My responsibilities will include video research, editing, as well as working in the theater. Unfortunately, I can’t take a leave of absence from ASI so I had to put my two weeks notice in. I am very excited though and I feel like this is a an opportunity I can’t pass up. I will keep you updated over the summer on how the project is going.
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I was in New York this week for the ASI Show! New York. I helped with the multimedia design for a party hosted for our clients. The party was Frank Sinatra theme so I created a 1940s nightclub atmosphere by projecting life-size archival video of Ol’ Blue Eyes performing on stage. In between each act, was a Flash animation about the company’s product. We even had video projected of Tim Andrews, the president & CEO of ASI, introducing Frank as if they were on the same stage together. The room was decorated like a restaurant/bar with movie-size posters of the product hanging on the wall illuminated with spotlights. Check out the pictures on flickr.
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I will be working with Diane Sharp-Nachsin, the Artistic Director of SHARP Dance Company, on an upcoming piece. I will be creating visuals that will be projected on stage behind the dancers. The piece will premier at the 2008 Philly Fringe Festival in September.
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Although the weather was abnormally cold (the coldest day was around 30 degrees!), my trip to Orlando was pretty awesome! Mark and I spent four “adventure-packed” days in Disney. Highlights included staying in Magic Kingdom until 2 am, spending New Year’s Eve in Epcot, meeting Remy & Emile in MGM, and riding Expedition: Everest in Animal Kingdom. Check out some pictures from the trip at flickr.
The reason we went to Orlando to begin with is because ASI hired Taiko drummers to perform at their conference and I was asked to design an animation to be projected behind them. The performance turned out great - check out the video clip on my portfolio page.
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Five times a year ASI hosts a conference called The ASI Show!. The first conference of the year is always in Orlando and this year, yours truly will get to attend! Taiko drummers were hired to perform right before the show floor opens and I was asked to design an animation that will be projected behind them. Pretty exciting, huh - especially since this project is right up my alley. I will be creating an interactive Flash piece- There will be nine preset animations that can be controlled using the keyboard to play with the beat of the drums. Because this is being created for ASI, I will have to use a certain color scheme and each animation will be abstracts of our logo.
And if you thought that was exciting, since the conference takes place right after New Years, I have decided to go down to Orlando early with Mark and celebrate New Year’s Eve in Walt Disney World! I’ll let you know how the trip turns out when I get back.
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I started working at Advertising Specialty Institute (aka ASI) this week. I work in the Marketing Department as a Web Designer designing and coding mainly email campaigns.
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